PARTICIPANT MEDIA ENTERS INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH SUBMARINE ENTERTAINMENT TO HANDLE SALES, CONSULT ON UPCOMING SLATE OF DOCUMENTARIES FILMS INCLUDE NEW DOCS BY GUGGENHEIM, WALKER AND HILL

Participant Media has entered into an agreement with Josh Braun’s Submarine Entertainment to handle North American sales and consult on worldwide sales of its upcoming slate of documentary features. These include new documentaries by Davis Guggenheim (the Academy Award®-winning An Inconvenient Truth), Lucy Walker (Blindsight) and Brian Hill (Songbirds). In addition, Braun will serve as a consultant to Participant on business and general strategy relating to its documentary films.

Submarine recently was responsible for securing distribution deals with Magnolia Pictures, Alliance Films and PBS’s “P.O.V.” for Participant and River Road Entertainment’s hit documentary, Food, Inc. which has grossed over $4 million to date at the North American box office, and the critically-acclaimed The Cove, which was recently released by Roadside Attractions with Participant handling the social action campaign. Other independent films handled by Submarine include Humpday, Valentino: The Last Emperor, Soul Power, The Mystery Team, Burma VJ and this year’s Academy Award®-winning feature documentary Man on Wire.

Diane Weyermann, Participant’s Executive Vice President of Documentary Production, said “We are delighted to formalize this arrangement with Josh for our upcoming docs. With his expert knowledge of the independent film business and passion for documentaries, he will be an invaluable asset as we look to secure distribution for our next slate of docs.”

Braun said, “"Participant's genuine commitment to high quality and meaningful documentary films is rare and exciting to be part of. I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to continue to work with Diane and the Participant team in an ongoing arrangement that will allow us to more intimately collaborate and strategize on the documentary division's impressive upcoming slate as well as their overall goals moving forward."

Craig Emanuel at Loeb and Loeb provided legal services for Submarine in connection with the negotiation of the deal.

About Participant Media
Participant Media is a Los Angeles-based entertainment company that focuses on socially relevant, commercially viable feature films, documentaries and television, as well as publishing and digital media. Participant Media is headed by CEO Jim Berk and was founded in 2004 by philanthropist Jeff Skoll, who serves as Chairman. Ricky Strauss is President.

Participant exists to tell compelling, entertaining stories that bring to the forefront real issues that shape our lives. For each of its projects, Participant creates extensive social action and advocacy programs which provide ideas and tools to transform the impact of the media experience into individual and community action. Participant’s films include The Kite Runner, Charlie Wilson’s War, Darfur Now, An Inconvenient Truth, Good Night and Good Luck., Syriana, Standard Operating Procedure, The Visitor, The Soloist, Food, Inc. and The Informant!

About Submarine Entertainment
Submarine Entertainment is a hybrid sales and production company, consulting and strategizing on the sale, distribution and development of documentaries, feature films and non-fiction entertainment programming and producing unique and high quality feature films, documentaries and television properties. The company has represented and sold feature films and documentaries over the last nine years and has developed a leading position in this arena. Films represented by Submarine have included The Eclipse, Food, Inc., Humpday, Man on Wire, Valentino, The Last Emperor, The Cove, When You’re Strange, Burma VJ, Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Pressure Cooker, Baghead, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Forty Shades of Blue, Witch Hunt, Soul Power, The Black List, Dear Zachary, Encounters at the End of the World, My Kid Could Paint That, In the Shadow of the Moon, Deliver Us From Evil, Autism: The Musical, Spellbound, SuperSize Me, Dig!, Unknown White Male and many others.